From dwarf to giant: the height is 1.27 meters before the age of 21, and it grows to 2.34 meters after the age of 21, the only case in the world

In "Alice in Wonderland", the girl Alice once ate a kind of biscuit, and her body became so huge that it could break through the house; and after eating another kind of biscuit, Alice's body would become smaller, like a Insect ants. Such fantastic things will probably only happen in the fairyland in the dream, but in reality, there have been people who have both dwarfism and gigantism at the same time.

Dwarfism and gigantism are two extreme diseases, the former is much shorter than normal people, while the latter is much higher than normal people, but both are diseases caused by the uncoordinated secretion of growth hormone, and the brain, intelligence, etc. In other respects, they are no different from normal people.

Adam Rainer, who once came from Graz, Austria-Hungary, suffered from dwarfism when he was young. He was born in 1899. At that time, people's awareness of various diseases was limited, and the medical level was different. Now it is developed. , so Reiner's family was completely unaware that Reiner had problems with growth and development.

In 1917, when the First World War was in full swing, the 18-year-old Reiner walked out of the village and came to the registration point to join the army. People first noticed this little guy. He was only 1.22 meters tall. This is also the first time that Reiner's family has been told that Reiner suffers from dwarfism.

Reiner refused to believe this result. He rummaged through a large number of medical-related books, trying to disprove the claim that "I am dwarfism". Curiously, Reiner, despite being shorter, has normally developed hands and feet, and at age 18 he was able to wear a size 28 and a size 33 the following year.

Reiner used this as an excuse to apply for the army again, but after a year, although he grew a little taller, he was still only 1.27 meters tall, that is to say, his feet had exceeded a quarter of his length. One side is very short, and the other side is large, people can't explain it, but obviously he couldn't meet the requirements of joining the army at that time, so he was sent back.

Reiner was depressed for 3 years, but at the age of 21, his body seemed to be out of a cocoon, growing like crazy. Reiner, who had stopped growing, gained 10 centimeters in just one year, and everyone was very happy to think that Reiner was not dwarfism, he just developed a little later than the others.

Reiner also quickly broke through the height level of normal people, gradually surpassing the average height of local men of 1.75 meters, and then 10 years later, at the age of 31, the height was raised to 2.16 meters. From a dwarf to a big man, Reiner was very happy, at least no one would treat him as a dwarf anymore.

But at the same time, Reiner also paid a serious price for growing taller. He is not like other healthy young men in their twenties and thirties. Although he eats a lot and has a lot of strength, he is often weak, and his body has developed various diseases. The most obvious thing is that his appearance has changed from his original handsome appearance. It became more and more uglier, the limbs became fatter and the speech was muddy.

The family originally thought that Reiner was "bound" too tightly, so he rebounded and led to his current crazy growth, and the reason for this is only the normal changes of entering a young adult, so they didn't care. It was not until Reiner was unable to live independently due to osteoporosis and scoliosis that his family sent him to the hospital for examination.

This time the hospital concluded that Reiner suffered from gigantism, and his internal organs also had obvious abnormalities, which were typical manifestations of gigantism. But Reiner was only 1.27 meters tall before the age of 21, and was judged to be dwarfism. How could he grow from a dwarf to a giant?

This is the first time that the hospital has received such a case, and it is also the first in the world. Many doctors have come to hear the news and want to study Reiner's body. It turned out that it turned out that Reiner's brain had a tumor, which happened to be located around the pituitary gland that secretes growth hormone, which has been compressing and stimulating Reiner's pituitary gland to secrete growth hormone.

Doctors solved the mystery. It turned out that Rainer was a dwarf, but a tumor in his brain saved him and made him normal, but in the end it destroyed him and made him gigantism. symptom. After discovering the cause, doctors rushed Reiner to operate to remove the tumor.

However, because the tumor grew in the brain, and the technical conditions at the time were limited, doctors only dared to remove the part, but could not cure the root, and Reiner's growth rate only slowed down, but it extended his life. Reiner, who was only in his thirties, was admitted to a nursing home and died in March 1950 at the age of 51. His height eventually stopped at 2.34 meters, and he is still the only case of both dwarfism and gigantism. .